Same-sex marriage will help children

How about an Indiana constitutional amendment banning divorce, or an amendment requiring all expectant parents to be married? In his argument supporting an Indiana constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, Curt Smith of the Indiana Family Institute (Letters, June 29) contends that such a ban would support stronger families. Not really.

Some estimates indicate that 40 percent of all births in the United States are out of wedlock. An estimated half of all marriages will end in divorce. Other statistics show that same-sex couples typically have higher disposable household incomes than opposite-sex couples, possibly because both individuals are more likely to be employed.

If the goal is for children to have two involved parents and to stay out of poverty, why would anyone support a ban on marriage based only on the fact that both parents are of the same sex? Let's see this for what it is. As a faith-based political lobbying group, the Indiana Family Institute's support for a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage is founded on conservative religious beliefs and its members are certainly entitled to their opinions and to express those opinions, but the "factual" support for their position is a misdirection and nonsense.

Kirk A. Knoll

Indianapolis

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Same-sex marriage will help children

How about an Indiana constitutional amendment banning divorce, or an amendment requiring all expectant parents to be married? In his argument supporting an Indiana constitutional amendment banning